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An anonymous reader writes "Last year Slashdot ran a story on scientists from the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany developing a novel method to improve password security. A strong long password is split in two parts. The first part is memorized by a human. The second part is stored as a CAPTCHA-like image of a chaotic lattice system.

http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/1333212/scientists-develop-new-method-to-improve-passwords

Today, after a year of work, the same group at Max Planck Institute released an online working prototype, where everybody can try this technology to encrypt files (Java plugin required).

http://www.crpt.me/"
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